25 January 2007

One Royals prospect is trying to get his name out there a little more. OF Billy Butler is touring KC and just launched http://www.billybutler.com/ recently. A link has also been added under the "Royals links" section to the left. It's worth checking out, although there's not a lot on there yet. There was also a feature on Butler in the Star this week, it's pretty interesting as well:

http://tinyurl.com/2pqlsa

Royals fans have to like what he's saying. Hopefully it's not just lip service and he can stick around and produce on the MLB level. The Pipeline wishes him the best of luck.

My only thoughts would be that I'd bump Fisher up to a "goodprospect," but then again he hasn't proven much above rookie ball. Ihaven't seen the big deal on Christensen -- he's shown brief flashesbut has been inconsistent from what I remember in looking at boxscores of his games day by day. Fisher has had few missteps from what I've seen.The run down on #s 4-10 went, simply, that Lubanski is a bad defensive OF,Braun is a "finished project" that may step in if Dotel fails, Christensen has a low-90sfastball, good curve and stamina but hasn't done anything above A-ball, Lumsdenis more of a "pitch to contact" style guy but may pan out as a workhorse, Maier is adecent contact hitter and 4th OF and Bianchi will likely be moved to 2B and start theyear at Burlington (the Bees, not the B-Royals) after having labrum surgery last year.